Glaucoma is often called the “silent thief of sight” because the disease can damage vision for years before people notice ...

Every morning, millions of people brew a pot of coffee without a second thought. It’s routine, reliable, and for most of us, ...

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered Podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD's Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. Okay, right now millions of people ...

Nearly half of adults in the United States have hypertension, or high blood pressure — but many of them, an estimated 11 million people, don’t know it. The condition is a leading cause of preventable ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 82-year-old woman who was diagnosed with glaucoma about three years ago. I have been taking latanoprost eye drops at bedtime since then. A glaucoma specialist in my health ...

Vision changes can happen for a number of reasons, some of which are no major cause for concern, such as dry eye or fatigue. But others are serious enough to warrant a trip to the emergency department ...

1 National Engineering Research Center of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Wenzhou, People's Republic of China 2 National Clinical Research Center for ...

Pigment dispersion syndrome happens when pigment from the iris floats in the eye. High eye pressure from the condition can damage the optic nerve, which sends images to the brain. Treatment may ...

Non-glaucomatous optic neuropathy, glaucoma-like optic neuropathy, and glaucomatous optic neuropathy prevalence increases with longer axial lengths. Longer axial lengths, as seen in high axial myopia, ...

For patients with glaucoma, a high pillow position is associated with increased intraocular pressure (IOP) and reduced ocular perfusion pressure. HealthDay News — For patients with glaucoma, a high ...

Sleeping without pillows may help lower high internal eye pressure, build-up of which causes optic nerve damage and glaucoma-the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide–in people with the ...